Call for papers - COACT Conference 2019

Interaction and discourse in flux: Changing landscapes of everyday life

COACT Conference 2019

University of Oulu, Finland, 24-26 April, 2019

This conference explores how changes in society emerge in interactions and discourses. How do these changes influence, and how are they influenced by, participants in various contexts of work and everyday life? We warmly welcome contributions that outline future trends and present new perspectives on interaction and discourse studies. Presentations may investigate the complexity of different settings, data, methods and theories.

We invite papers and posters from different viewpoints, such as:

Methodologies in flux: developing and combining different methods and materials, covering also big data and thick data

Research approaches in flux: reconsidering theories, societal impact of research, researchers' responsibility in engaging in public discourse

Technologies in flux: relationships and interactions with, via and within ubiquitous technologies

Participation in flux: examinations of togetherness, encounters and human sociality in different settings; how access and participation may be redefined, e.g., in working life, education and online environments

The invited keynote speakers address the conference theme from their respective viewpoints:

Jon Hindmarsh, King’s College LondonTeamwork in flux: Interactional practices and new technologies

Rodney Jones, University of ReadingNegotiating the Right to Look: Power, technology and visability

Leena Kuure, University of OuluCapturing complexity in change: Theoretical and methodological challenges

Paul McIlvenny, Aalborg UniversityStaging and inhabiting spatial video and audio data: Towards a scenographic turn in the analysis of complex sites of social interaction and discourse

The main language of the conference is English, but presentations in other languages are also welcome.

Important dates:

Submission of abstracts: 19 October 2018

Notifications of acceptance: 30 November 2018

Registration will open in January 2019

Deadline for registration and payment: 28 February 2019 (for presenters), 24 March 2019 (participants without a presentation)

Papers and poster presentations:

The abstracts for both papers and poster presentations are limited to 300 words, including references.The time allotted to section papers will be 20 mins + 10 mins.Posters will be presented during a Poster Walk, which consists of short 5-minute talks followed by commentary and a general discussion.

The conference is organized by the research community COACT – Complexity of (inter)action: Towards an understanding of skilled multimodal participation, based at the University of Oulu, Finland. Research in COACT focuses on how language and multimodal resources feature in the complexity of social action and interaction, and how social participants skillfully manage and organize their conduct at complex sites of learning, work and everyday life. For more information: http://www.oulu.fi/coact/